Chris Hardwick: When I moderated that panel for Episode 7 last year at Comic Con. [Harrison] was different than I had seen him at any of those things before. He seemed very humbled by the experienced. He seemed very touched by all of it.
Mark Hamill: That’s what surprises me because, I mean look…when they said they wanted us to come back, George said look if you don’t want to come back we’re not going to kill you off we’ll just write you out, we’re not going to recast or whatever. He didn’t say they wouldn’t kill us off, maybe they would have. But, the major emotion was fear. I thought, we had a beginning, middle, and an end let’s leave well enough alone. I was just frightened and people can be brutal. Some of the criticism leveled at the prequels was just beyond comprehension. I said one thing I can feel good about is “there’s no way Harrison is going to do this” and if there’s not all of us there’s an out for me. Not that I wouldn’t do it, but if he doesn’t do it, at least it gives me an out if I decide not to. I was sure he wouldn’t do it because over the years you get the feeling that he’s sort of had it up to here with it, somehow that detracts what he’s established outside of that franchise, so maybe that’s why he has disdain for it, who knows. Everyone goes through phases.
